The Greatest Welding Cart Ever

Andrew McClelland is a New Zealander who moved to Huntington Beach, California, to maintain a large, private car collection. The collection is housed in a narrow, multilevel building, which makes it difficult to move cars around to work on them. Andrew reasoned that it would be much easier to make his tools mobile, so he built this amazing cart to ensure he'd never have to walk very far from a project car to build a bracket for it. He began assembling the cart in 2002 out of 0.500-inch-thick aluminum plate and 0.120-wall, rectangular mild-steel tubing and some heavy-duty casters. He's been adding to it ever since. We found the fabricator and cart deep into sheetmetal repair at Hot Rods and Hobbies in Signal Hill, California, where Andrew now works. Let's just say the accessorizing throughout the years has added mucho value to an already great idea. Can you hot rod your shop equipment? This says yes.

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1.Our favorite mod is the aluminum accessory rack that holds the air tools: seven die grinders with diferent attachments, three reciprocating saws, a disc sander, and a right-angle drill. No digging through the toolbox and wasting time swapping attachments for this guy. he just grabs the grinder with the tool he needs and goes to work.
2. The sides of the cart carry all the ancillary drilling, cutting, and welding tools.
3. Andrew made fixed mounts for a gas cylinder and a miller dynasty 200 tIG welder, then removed the lower pedestal from a central machinery 16-speed drill press and bolted it in a convenient spot.
4. The bottom of the cart holds the lamps, a shoe light, and various welding supplies.
5. The rear section houses a bufng/grinding station and an ammo can full of water for cooling of hot parts.
6. The right side of the table contains a disc sander, a bench vise, and a power strip for all the electric-cord connections.